Defending Nakhichevan as the First Step in Consolidating the Turks

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

Defending Nakhichevan as the First Step

in Consolidating the Turks

 

Today, the main source of danger in the Caucasus, and perhaps for all countries in the Caspian region, is the military-strategic alliance between Moscow and Yerevan, with the easily decipherable Moscow-Tehran axis.

Moscow is deliberately keeping the Karabakh conflict simmering, so that at the right moment it can give Yerevan, long-awaited, the go-ahead to resume military action in order to prevent the supply of Caspian Basin hydrocarbons to Europe. Implementing any project like Nabucco, bypassing Russia, undermines its monopoly in this area and will inevitably lead to the decline of its economy, which in turn will lead the Russian Empire, with its Turkic-speaking underbelly, to a second, and perhaps final, stage of disintegration. It's safe to assume that the capture of Nakhichevan is the first of the Armenian Nazis' planned objectives in Yerevan's aggressive plans to create a chimerical "Greater Armenia from Sea to Sea." Surrounded by enemies—Russia-backed Armenia to the north and east, and Iran to the south—defending this isolated Azerbaijani territory, should hostilities resume, is problematic, and the likelihood of its capture is quite high. Considering the ethnic cleansing carried out by Armenian fascists in Khojaly and the completely scorched Aghdam, the fate of Nakhichevan's defenders and population is expected to be tragic.

 

In my opinion, the correct solution to prevent such an outcome is to establish joint control of the Nakhichevan region by Azerbaijan and Turkey, taking advantage of the small stretch of their shared border. How great was Atatürk's genius, who insisted on this, albeit short, but obligatory treaty-based common border between Turkey and Azerbaijan during negotiations with Moscow? It seems the time has come to take advantage of this circumstance. However, it should be noted that Moscow subsequently, without violating this treaty, resorted to another trick: it transferred part of Azerbaijani territory, namely the Zangezur region, to Armenia, artificially creating the Autonomous Nakhichevan Republic of Azerbaijan, thus separating the Nakhichevan region from the mainland of Azerbaijan.

 

 

The joint administration of the Nakhichevan enclave by Baku and Ankara guarantees the security of its population and will be the first official step toward the consolidation of the Turkic nation, a guarantee of further successful economic development, as well as the revival of the common Turkic culture, which had suffered under the colonial past.

 

Undoubtedly, such an agreement between Azerbaijan and Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic bloc, will cause sharp discontent in Armenia and Russia as the main opponent of this bloc, but, on the other hand, it will be an adequate and, most importantly, completely legitimate response to the strategic alliance of Russia and Armenia.

 

  07.01.2013